Megan Fox Is the Latest Celeb to Discuss "Mommy Guilt"

Manages not to be alienating about it.

We've spoken many times about the precarious position in which celebrities are placed when asked how they deal with "mommy guilt." Megan Fox is the latest celeb to tackle the question, and unlike fellow thesps Gwyneth Paltrow and Emma Thompson—who had some unfortunate missteps—she manages to respond to the query in a way that's both universal and empathetic.

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Rather than focusing on how she balances working with motherhood, Fox instead discusses a different facet of mom guilt: Giving her undevoted attention to more than one child now that she has two sons. "Before you have kids you really do not understand how much work it is and how consuming it is," Megan says in the new issue of Parents. "I don't feel like I'm ever giving either one of them 100 percent of my attention or 100 percent of myself, so I carry a lot of guilt. Do they each understand how special they are and how much I love them? And are they understanding that they're unique? It's hard to make each one feel like an individual when you have to raise them together and manage them together all of the time. So that's the most difficult part."

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